Broadway, Main Street, and Central Avenue all signal the public center of the American small town. Thousands of them. Politicians may wax sentimental over small town life, but in Thousands of Broadways Robert Pinsky (hometown: Long Branch, NJ) explores the nightmarish side as wellthe welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character of small towns during their heyday.

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